Danny Trejo (born May 16, 1944 in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA) is a Mexican-American actor with over 280 credits for film and TV. He has appeared in various movie franchises including the Bad Ass trilogy and numerous projects by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, who also happens to be his estranged cousin. He has also worked numerous times with the likes of Ving Rhames, Steven Seagal, Robert Miano, Willem Dafoe, C. Thomas Howell, Dennis Hopper, Eric Roberts, Rob Zombie, Quentin Tarantino, Chuck Norris, Gary Busey, Michael Madsen, David Hasselhoff, Ron Perlman, Tom Sizemore, Mickey Rourke and Sylvester Stallone.